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 ABACUS Documentation
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-ABACUS (**A**tomic-orbital **B**ased **A**b-initio **C**omputation at **US**tc) is
+ABACUS (Atomic-orbital Based Ab-initio Computation at UStc) is
 an open-source computer code package based on density functional
 theory (DFT). The package utilizes both plane wave and numerical
 atomic basis sets with the usage of pseudopotentials